How to fix this? pytube.exceptions.RegexMatchError: get_ytplayer_config: could not find match for config_patterns

When I’m trying to download videos using pytube I’m getting this error. I’m using the latest version of pytube:

raise RegexMatchError(caller="get_ytplayer_config", pattern="config_patterns")
pytube.exceptions.RegexMatchError:
get_ytplayer_config: could not find match for config_patterns

Answer

You might be running an old version of pytube. Run these commands, they might fix your problem:

python -m pip uninstall pytube pytube3 pytubex
python -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube